... monitoring different drug and alcohol youth prevention programs and survey their effectiveness from years past to present day. I will specifically be monitoring the current trends of youth drug and alcohol abuse throughout the past decade. I will also take a look at our local and national government officials and their views and actions regarding the issue. Though much government funding towards programs have ... , More than any other person in America, the President can set a tone, deliver a message, [and] lead a cause. This is a cause I will lead" www.usatoday/com/news/opinion/e2880.ht...

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... used to obtain legal counsel. Reagan ruled that marijuana was concluded to be a gateway drug, which lead to the abuse of harder drugs such as crack, cocaine, and heroin. George Bush decided that drugs are immoral and unlawful; hence labeling drugs a moral issue. His number one target for some ... U.S. Constitution. It seems that our government is in the business of drugs. Even former President Clinton, has admitted to experimenting with marijuana and President George W. Bush, Jr. has been said to have used cocaine while in college, not to mention ex-mayor Marion Barry of Washington D.C. S...

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... (3). The fourth and final reason is to increase psychophysical performances(3). These four reasons are what scientists believe to be why people use and abuse drugs. The second and main reason why their is a business of trafficking narcotics is for the infinite amounts of money. The most popular ... cocaine trafficker in the 1980s was George Jung. George worked with Pablo Escobar. George is famous for saying, "if you snorted cocaine in the late 1970s or early 1980s there was a 85% chance it came from ... (3). The fourth and final reason is to increase psychophysical performances(3). These...

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... years, until the war ended, he and his mother lived with his father's parents in Clearwater, in a house that was a safe, warm growing-up environment. When Jim's father, Admiral George S. Morrison, returned following the end of the war, he and his family began a typical military lifestyle (Hopkins, p.33). Mr. Morrison's duty assignments forced his family to move from ... difficult child, but says it was because he was looking for attention. Halfway through his sophomore year, the Morrison's moved again, this time to Virginia, where Jim enrolled in George Washington High School (Hopkins, ...

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... high of heroin, and modulate the effects of cocaine. Flunitrazepam is usually consumed orally, is often combined with alcohol, and is abused by crushing tablets and snorting the powder. Flunitrazepam abuse causes a number of adverse effects in the abuser, including drowsiness, dizziness, loss of motor control, lack of co-ordination, slurred speech, confusion, and gastrointestinal disturbances, lasting 12 or ... , long-term, and often irreversible health problems. These include hearing loss, brain and central nervous system damage, bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, and blood ox...

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... to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed ... "Just say No!- speech and President Reagan makes marijuana a top priority. Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducin...

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... to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed ... "Just say No!" speech and President Reagan makes marijuana a top priority. Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducin...

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... to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed ... "Just say No!" speech and President Reagan makes marijuana a top priority. Upon examining the relationship between marijuana use and violent crime, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "Rather than inducin...

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... which was used for personal and medicinal use. Usage of marijuana has been reported to date back to the founding of Jamestown (1). George Washington himself cultivated and used to relieve the pain of an aching tooth. Opium was accessible to anyone who wanted to purchase it, ... Narcotics and Other Dangerous Drugs(BNDD). During President Nixons" time in office, he wage war on drugs and created the Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement(ODALE) and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence(ONNI). In 1973, he also initiated Reorganization Plan No. 2, which ... changed the BNDD into th...

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... which was used for personal and medicinal use. Usage of marijuana has been reported to date back to the founding of Jamestown (1). George Washington himself cultivated and used to relieve the pain of an aching tooth. Opium was accessible to anyone who wanted to purchase it, ... Narcotics and Other Dangerous Drugs(BNDD). During President Nixons" time in office, he wage war on drugs and created the Office of Drug Abuse and Law Enforcement(ODALE) and the Office of National Narcotics Intelligence(ONNI). In 1973, he also initiated Reorganization Plan No. 2, which ... changed the BNDD into th...

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... and Control Act of 1970 consolidated the previous anti-war legislation into one bill and therefore also established schedules of illicit drugs (1Gray 27). When George H. W. Bush became president, the law enforcement had been losing to new high-tech smugglers and people even accused him of working with the enemy ... (Nixon 4). However, from 1971 when Nixon first declared the "war on drugs" to 1992, "the violent crimes most commonly associated with substance abuse (murder, robbery, and aggravated assault) have risen at a per capita rate of 67%, while arrests for violation of the United Sta...

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... be dismissed as irrelevant by persons who live the myth. To affect the drug war we must address its mythological content. Drug abuse unifies America. Drug abuse, however, is universally regarded as deviancy. Illicit drugs are considered immoral because they harm people, plenty of approved substances and activities ... twenty-five million. The problem is that American drug users have enormous quantities of disposable income. Drug legalization would lead to increased drug abuse. No one should doubt that the demand for illegal drugs lies at the heart of the global drug problem. We in the ...

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Substance abuse is arguably one of the longest running diseases in the world. George and Martha Washington grew - and probably smoked - marijuana without a second thought. Early pharmacies made codeine, opium and morphine readily available for people who ... with you forever. Whether you"re an addict "in waiting", an acting addict, or a recovering one - "Once an addict, ALWAYS an addict". The chain of abuse only goes on from there. Children will pick up on their parents drug use, even if they don't see it first hand. Eventually, they too will be fighting ... injecting drugs. Again, these pr...

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... produce paper, clothing and rope. It was so important in those early days of America that Virginia introduced legislation in 1762 that exacted penalties on farms that didn't produce it. George Washington was an early hemp farmer and made notes in his diary about the quality of the hemp . There is nothing to indicate that ... George Washington smoked marijuana but the myth is prevalent among marijuana advocates. In 1793 the invention of the cotton gin made the separation cotton fiber from the hull easier and far ... economical benefits. Ethan Nadelman, an assistant professor of politic...

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... their musicsuch as musicians like Tom Petty, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, James Brown this list could keep going. American presidents have used it. Presidents like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington (grew it, some evidence he smoked), Bill Clinton there were others too. Great minds such as Aaron Sorkin (creator of West Wing), Carl Sagan (scientist, writer), JRR Tolkien (writer ... only victims. The most important thing about a drug, however, is not what it does that is good, instead it is what it does that is bad. According to DARE (drug abuse resistance education),...

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... laws to restrict it. America has been fighting this drug war for many years. President Ronald Reagan signed several different anti drug laws during his presidency. Then in 1989 president George Bush announced a four-part plan to fight illegal drugs. The presidents" 1993 budget allocated about $15.8 billion for all law enforcement programs, which included hiring more drug agents for The ... admitted to trying it at least once. Our former president Bill Clinton even admitted to "trying" marijuana during the nineteen sixties (online article). According to NIDA (National Institute on Drug A...

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... its many uses and invaluableness of hemp. It produced paper, clothing, rope, and was used marijuana was used to treat almost every ailment. The first president of the United States, George Washington, was an early hemp farmer. He kept notes in a journal about the quality of it and he wrote that he tried to make sure the female plants would become ... has been a wide spread drug across our country since mainly the late 60's and lately even more people are using it. According to the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, in 2001, over 83,272,000 people have used marijuana at least ...

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... 's, colonists in Virginia planted the first hemp crop and were subsequently ordered by the King of England to engage in wide scale farming of the plant. It is reported that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson cultivated marijuana and preached for a hemp based economy! Hemp cultivation continued as an agricultural staple in America through the turn of the 20th century and was ... studies done throughout the United States by prestigious organizations such as National Academy Press, Connecticut Law Review, Journal of Public Health and the California State Office of Narcotics and Drug Abu...

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